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regarding Meyers Mill, South Carolina
I was browsing the new pages and ran across your article. Excellent first draft. Kudos to you! JohnCub 21:57, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Great Articles, Wondering...
If you would like to help me with the State Parks in South Carolina. I read your Palmetto Trail mini-guide and it is very accurate on the sections I have hiked. I also have hiked sections of the Foothills Trall and plan to do it all the way through very soon. Anyway... I was wondering if you could help me with South Carolina Trails, and South Carolina State Parks. We could make it a WikiProject.

Thanks, Clemson3564 23:28, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

The template works now
Everything is optional now except the name. I am making another state park with it at Caesars Head. If you have a picture from there it would help. If there is anything wrong with the template let me know.

Clemson3564 00:39, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Category:Historic South Carolina Counties, Districts, and Parishes
I have attached Category:Historic South Carolina Counties, Districts, and Parishes to a group nomination to rename a large number of categories at Categories for discussion/Log/2007 July 11. Basically, I have recommend changing "historic" to "former", as "former" is less ambiguous than "historic". (Think of all of the county tourism groups in the United States that have some type of sales pitch about their county being "historic".) I hope that you do not mind.

Also, could you remove the category from User:KudzuVine/Sandbox? User pages should not appear in the same categories as Wikipedia articles.

I hope you understand. Thank you, Dr. Submillimeter 15:03, 13 July 2007 (UTC)


 * If you plan on adding a lot of text to this category, you may want to consider creating an article istead. Generally, categories are just a navigation and organizational aid.  Articles would be more appropriate if you want to discuss the history of parish and county divisions in detail.  (It would probably be a decent article, too.)  Dr. Submillimeter 17:37, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Post-1850 Ownership of Fort Hill
I have raised a question regarding possibly conflicting statements in two articles you have been involved in editing, Fort Hill (Clemson) and Thomas Green Clemson, and an article I have created and substantially edited, Floride Calhoun, relating to the ownership of the plantation following John C. Calhoun's death in 1850. See Talk:Fort Hill (Clemson) for further details. --TommyBoy (talk) 17:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your assistance in resolving the problem. --TommyBoy (talk) 23:50, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

South Carolina NHL articles
Hi KudzuVine -- I notice you've added photos and otherwise improved several articles indexed by List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina, such as Clark Mills Studio. Thanks, great! Those pics could also be added to the NHL list, too, of course.

I see that several of the pictures are the DejaVu ones at the National Park Service. It is fine to use these, and for you to provide a link directly to the specific URL for the given photo. I would only want to suggest that for these you also add additional information available in the PDF document that provides the entire photo set, and add a link to the photo set PDF as well. I just edited the Clark Mills Studio photo that you added, in that way. For that one, the photographer is known and should be credited. My edit might be improved, but at least I provide a link to the PDF file. For some other photos that you added, I don't see the photographer name, so adding the PDF file link wouldn't help as much. But adding the PDF file link would help anyone else like me to verify that there is no photographer name to credit, so there is some benefit even then. Anyhow, thanks again for what you've done, keep up the good work! :) doncram (talk) 22:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Glad to see your further additions of pictures, including some from HABS today. I took the liberty of announcing the list-article at WP:NRHP, just now, as it has reached "Start" rating (meaning it has an article for every NHL it indexes).  Clariosophic has also worked on a lot of the articles.  I wonder if we three are interested in developing it further, then to nominate it for Featured List?  I wasn't expecting to stay working on this list-article for long, when i started with some edits on 12 Feb, but i was encouraged by Clariosophic's and your involvement, and some others (Bedford developed a couple articles too).  Anyhow, thanks again.  I hope you may keep adding HABS and other pics, it is starting to look really impressive.  Cheers, doncram (talk) 02:35, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Really good catch about the mixup within the former Bethesda Presbyterian Church article (which is now a disambiguation page). Bethesda Presbyterian Church (Camden, South Carolina) now covers the Kershaw County one that is the NHL.  I created new Bethesda Presbyterian Church (McConnells, South Carolina) for the York County NRHP.  I am happy to report that I have learned enough to observe, comparing the SC DAH photos available for both, that I can tell which is Robert Mills work and which is not!   You are doing really great work.  I am impressed with your cropping and good source notes within the HABS photos you have been uploading.  I am also surprised at how many you are finding.  In New York State, when I did a lot of HABS looking, I didn't find nearly as many as you are finding.  It seems to me that most of the SC NHLs are really old and beautiful homes or churches or plantation houses, so it was obvious to the depression era HABS photographers that they should take pics of them.  In NYS, there are more plain homes associated with the life of a suffragette or a union leader etc. that HABS didn't take note of.  Anyhow, the list-article is looking better and better, and because you have kept working so have I, plugging away at the descriptions and so on.  Thanks, and keep up the good work! doncram (talk) 23:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks also for pointing out probable/actual error in William Aiken House and Associated Railroad Structures. I have now cleared up the mixup, I believe, by creating a new article Gov. William Aiken House, which was also known as the Aiken-Rhett House or the Robinson-Aiken House, and I moved the relevant HABS material from the other article.  William Aiken was the railway founder;  William Aiken, Jr., his son, became governor.  It took me a while to get to it, but thanks for pointing out the mixup by posting to my Talk page. doncram (talk) 06:36, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Responding to your comment at my talk page: Ah, yes, that Piedmont site certainly should be added to the table of former NHLs in SC. I see i had left a "citation needed" attached to my statement that there were no de-designations in the state. I guess i meant to go and check, but never did. Good catch. And, wow, that color photo of the site burning, in the NHL summary for it, looks like public domain and certainly should be added to an article about the site. I wonder if you have HABS pics too, i'll watch to see what you do. :) P.S. you certainly are invited to join WP:NRHP, to sign up as a member, by the way.  I recently noticed you had not yet done so. doncram (talk) 23:34, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Virginia NHLs
Hi -- I've started working on List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia. I'd be very pleased if you were interested in making some additions there. I am inviting Clariosophic also to work on that list. I note there are HABS pics available for Exchange Building and many other Virginia NHLs (again as there were lots for South Carolina, while there are relatively fewer HABS pics for historically industrial states like Ohio and New York.) Cheers, doncram (talk) 00:31, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Wind tunnels in VA, and Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, in CA
Hi -- Thanks so much for all you've been doing developing the VA NHL list. I like the several wind tunnel articles you created from scratch, and your creating/expanding an entire category of wind tunnels. I wonder, would you be willing to develop the CA NHL article Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, which you visited to add a category tag recently? I have just stripped the former article down to eliminate copied material (which I personally dislike use of), and I added some standard references that can be used in developing the article. It would be a big help to me, as this is one of just a couple thorny problem articles within the CA NHL list, if you would smooth over the situation by developing some newly written text to explain/interpret this site. By the way, I note this article wikilinks to NACA, which I saw mentioned in sources for some of the VA wind tunnel articles, but I am not sure if you wikilink to it in those or not. The article for this one, built in 1955?, could usefully be related to the prior ones, probably by more than just the one reference to the Variable Density Tunnel that the article currently includes. I suppose there ought to be a history of wind tunnels article somewhere too that would benefit from all of these, and be linked from them (perhaps there is already, and/or you are developing it?). cheers, doncram (talk) 16:23, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I will look at this. I know a little about wind tunnels, but I am not an aerodynamicist. I was surprised that relatively few wind tunnels have articles and they are mainly the NACA/NASA tunnels we know about. I have another trip and this is the busy time at work. If I can locate a good history in the NASA webpages, I can probably do this later. I would have to find a history of wind tunnels to be able to do a separate history page. There are many, many wind tunnels built by governments, universities, industries throughout the world. KudzuVine (talk) 22:52, 15 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, you know a lot more than most people do about wind tunnels then, simply to know that there a lot. I'm noticing mention of more of them recently, now that i know a little.  Sort of relatedly, i have been reading Space, one of James Michener's long historical novels, this one from 1982, which involves NACA and lots of inter-related stories leading up to the space program, starting from missile program stuff in Germany during WWII.  I don't recall hearing anything about NACA before.  I am mainly focussed on finishing out starter articles on all the NHL sites, as you know, don't have a special interest in wind tunnels or NACA though. doncram (talk) 05:32, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

two John Marshall Houses
Hi -- Thanks for editing and uploading the HABS pic for John Marshall House. However, the one u uploaded and labelled as being in Richmond is from the wrong one of two John Marshall Houses in HABS, both in Virginia. I've linked the Richmond HABS page from the new article, and you'll see it is a different house than the one in Fauquier County. I can't figure out immediately whether the Fauquier County one is also an NRHP so the pic could be used in an article about it. The HABS report for it gives an alternative name of Oak Hill, and there are five Oak Hill NRHPs in Virginia. Anyhow, it would be super if you could remedy the situation for the Richmond NHL. :) doncram (talk) 03:37, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
 * P.S. I edited the uploaded Commons pic to indicate it is the one in Fauquier County, in description and in category, but I don't see how to change the uploaded photo name to not include Richmond. doncram (talk) 03:49, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing this mistake. I have been gone for a few days and will be off again. I marked this Template:Bad name with == since I was the uploader. You could do it with  , which is also discussed the Commons. I will check back in a week or so to see if it has been cleaned.KudzuVine (talk) 22:26, 15 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, okay, i sort of get it. I gather that this is a way to tag a photo in Commons asking for something to be done, like putting a db speedy delete request for an admin in wikipedia.  i've uploaded maybe 50 or so pics in Commons but have had very little interaction with anyone there.  Thanks, doncram (talk) 05:12, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Rendezvous Docking Simulator?
I wonder if you'd care to do Rendezvous Docking Simulator, one of the last four red-links in List of NHLs in VA? It sounds kinda like a wind tunnel to me. :) Or at least writing it, and sources and pics, might be similar.  All unfamiliar to me.  These last ones in the NHL list have been hard to get to as i am unfamiliar with what to do.  For example, i just was bogged down for a long time trying to figure out and document differences among the Pocahontas coalfield vs. Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine vs. Pocahontas Historic District, which i didn't know anything about beforehand.  Just feeling a bit stuck.  No problem if you don't get to it, i will get unstuck sometime anyhow.

Nice work with adding pics for Georgia and DC and Delaware now; i still had those NHL lists on my watchlist. I know it is time-consuming to do the HABS locating and cropping and uploading and documenting. Or maybe you have a better system than i have been able to work out. It's really awesome how many pics you/we are getting, too. Cheers, doncram (talk) 05:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

lots of thanks

 * Thank you. It has been interesting and fun. I just completed what I could find on New Jersey. Mississippi next! KudzuVine (talk) 23:02, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I am really enjoying seeing u proceed. By the way, wherever you see a pic in place that is just a photo of the historic person associated with a historic place, it would be great if you could replace it with a pic of the place, if you can find one.  Some people like Dmadeo, who developed the List of NHLs in NJ, like to put in those, but i have come to dislike them.  I'd rather have a blank, partly because that would be more inviting to someone out there to take a pic, partly because they are misleading (the article about the place never has the pic of the person) and i want the list-reader to be rewarded by a larger size pic when they go to the article. doncram (talk) 00:25, 8 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I counted recently and know the total of NHL articles illustrated by photos is now over 1500, with most of recent increase due to you. By the way Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin College, not on the NHL list, is one more with HABS available. doncram (talk) 19:49, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Image:GPN-2000-000041.jpg
I noticed you've uploaded Image:GPN-2000-000041.jpg. Please give uploaded images names that describe the contents of the image. GPN-2000-000041.jpg is not very recognizeable to the general public; something like "Mississippi Rocket Propulsion Test Complex.jpg" would be a lot more helpful. The current name makes the image difficult to track, and it is hard to tell what the image is of without actually looking at it. You may want to consider renaming the image to better reflect its contents. Thanks nonetheless for the addition to the List of National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi, though! --Dudemanfellabra (talk) 23:55, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I almost always try to give a meaningful name. See any of my HABS photos - more will come for Mississippi soon. The exception is when the file exists on the internet. This will at least prevent another from uploading the same file with the same name. This view is debatable and there is no perfect answer. The file does have an appropriate NASA and Mississippi category.
 * I don't think that I have an easy way to rename the file. Template badname might work, but this relies on administrator in agreeing. I misnamed a HABS file with the wrong county. Since I also found the correct image in the correct county, I tried to rename. Then I used badname, but nothing happened. I tried speedy delete with an explanation. It finally took correspondence with the administrator. As I have said, most of my uploads now have very detailed on long names. This one does not. 23:02, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

List of Registered Historic Places in the City of Angels
Hi. I'd be very pleased if you'd like to add pics to brand new List of Registered Historic Places in the City of Angels. I am going to try putting that up for DYK in today's starting batch, despite it having many red-links. More pics over the next few days would be especially helpful! Have a good one. doncram (talk) 21:16, 15 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey, i've been away a few days. Thank you for your prompt and substantial support.  As you may have seen, Cbl62 stepped up to adding a lot more photos too.  Here's a copy of DYK recognition received, i don't know why they didn't award it directly to you and to Cbl62 too, as I had requested. doncram (talk) 07:36, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Also http://stats.grok.se/en/200805/List%20of%20Registered%20Historic%20Places%20in%20Los%20Angeles shows 2,728 hits on the article, peaking on the DYK day of course. Thanks again! doncram (talk) 07:36, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Nice to see that City of Angels is doing so well. I really did not find many pictures compared to many other states. And then one or two black & white HABS pictures got replaced by nicer and more recent color pictures. KudzuVine (talk) 22:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

You go to SC or Clemson?
I noticed you are doing a lot of articles about South Carolina. Did you go to Clemson University by chance? Chris (talk) 15:12, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I have not been a student at either of this these fine institutions! Writing about National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina is fun because the South Carolina Department of Archives and History posts all the nomination forms. Also HABS/HAER has so many photographs -- especially in the Low Country. KudzuVine (talk) 13:33, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

pics continued
I see u keep at it, which is great. FYI there are several sites which i labelled "HABS pics avail." in the List of NHLs in VA article, after you had gone through the less complete list.... :)

FYI, i think u added a pic of USCGC Fir (WLB-213) to the lighthouse tender article when a pic of USCGC Fir (WLM-212) was the one needed, so i created a new stub article for the 213 one and switched pics in the lighthouse tender article. I have not invested a lot in understanding those, so hope i have it right, think i do. Cheers, doncram (talk) 21:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * You are correct about the lighthouse tender. USCGC Fir (WLB-213) is a buoy tender. I just jumped to the conclusion that it also did other aids to navigation like lighthouses. I realize that the lighthouses, in general, are not manned, but we still have offshore lighthouses. I just did Rock of Ages Light, which is such a lighthouse. They must be visited, but maybe there are no lighthouse tenders as the lighthouse tender pages says. the WLB-213 has sister ships so the infobox should be no problem. I will do that. In writing the Rock of Ages, I found that one of the shipwrecks, USS Puritan (1918) under a the name George M. Cox,, is an NRHP site and found the picture. This got me back to ships. I am currently trying to fill in WWI US L-class submarines.KudzuVine (talk) 22:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

List of RHPs in Chicago

 * And, browsing ur recent contributions, i see u have continued with ships! I wonder, though, if u could again be interested in searching out some HABS or other pictures, this time for the list of Chicago NRHPs in the Chicago section of List of Registered Historic Places in Cook County, Illinois/Temp.  That is a temporary article, with table format.  i plan to spin off the Chicago section into its own article, and want to  get a DYK for it, as i did with the List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles that you helped with.  In this Chicago list, i have already gone through the all the NHLs that are among the NRHPs, in order to ensure that any photos that you or others uploaded for the NHLs are represented.  But there a bunch of NRHPs that are not also NHLs, for which no one has ever searched for pics yet.  Anyhow, hope u are well.  Thanks!  doncram (talk) 05:30, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for stepping in! As you see i have dropped the descriptions column (temporarily so table can look good for DYK, then to be added later).  I put notes from some descriptions already there in new Talk page section of Talk: List of Registered Historic Places in Cook County, Illinois.  Also i renumbered the list.  Sorry if i caused any edit conflict for you.  I am done for now, have at it as you like now.  Will spin off Chicago article tomorrow maybe. Lvklock seems to be helping, too, was starting on descriptions, just before i deleted the column.  Thanks. doncram (talk) 17:09, 6 June 2008 (UTC)


 * It is looking good. The new pics freshen it up for those editors familiar with Chicago area sites already.  Hey, would you do the honors of starting the List of Registered Historic Places in Chicago artilce, and moving the Chicago table to it?  (With that, and with me submitting the DYK, I am sure i could get you and me both direct credit for DYK, which i would like.)  The table is ready, and a 1500 intro text summarizing it won't be hard to write during the next 4 days.  Perhaps the DYK hook could be something like "Did you know ... that Chicago has 296 places listed on the National Register, but no ships except for a German U-boat?".  Or "Did you know... that Chicago has 12 parks, ___ commercial buildings, and ___ individual homes listed on the National Register?".  Not too exciting, either of those but the hook-crafting will get better. doncram (talk) 19:54, 6 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for suggesting that I upload the page. I am afraid that back to home repairs. I have to replace a door this weekend after replacing my water heater last weekend. I did the photos that you had indicated. I looked for others with little success, but I will get back to it. I put in two pictures for train/subway stations that were on the respective webpages, but I hardly think that is the reason for NHRP. Certainly, the building is the issue and not a photo of a nearly generic station. I don't know anything about the historic districts to determine if HABS has any pictures. But many of the individual buildiings/houses do not have any HABS photos. It will need an interested Chicagoan with a camera to fill in much of it. KudzuVine (talk) 13:30, 7 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, local Chicagoans will have to step in to develop the list-article further, and they may well get started if they see the DYK about it. About creating the List of Registered Historic Places in Chicago article, that link shows as a blue-link because it has been in existence as a redirect to "List of Registered Historic Places in Cook County, Illinois".  To create the article as a real article, you need to get to the redirect, for example by following the link, then at the top of "List of Registered Historic Places in Cook County, Illinois" you will see:  "(Redirected from List of Registered Historic Places in Chicago)" and then click on that, to go to the redirect page itself.  Then erase the redirect line, and paste in the entire Chicago section, with a suitable edit title like "create the RHPs in Chicago list-article with table, including many photos".


 * I created the page List of Registered Historic Places in Chicago, removed Chicago sites from the List of Registered Historic Places in Cook County, Illinois with a link given to List of Registered Historic Places in Chicago. The Temp page has not yet been changed. Thanks for your help and doing most of the work! KudzuVine (talk) 19:20, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

DYK
The DYK hook was: Did you know
 * ... that there are at least 296 historic places listed on the U.S. National Register in Chicago, including a German U-boat (pictured)?  --Thanks for your pic prowess applied to List of RHPs in Chicago and elsewhere! The Chicago list, and many of the others, have developed nicely since, given the good start you helped provide. doncram (talk) 10:11, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help and doing most of the work on this one. What is the next project?KudzuVine (talk) 20:34, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

next project: List of octagon houses
Hi! Clariosophic and i are butting up against the DYK deadline for List of octagon houses. It's about 4 days old, but we are whipping it into shape and will nominate it to DYK imminently. Any help you could give to add HABS or other pics to the list and the articles it indexes, would be highly appreciated! cheers, doncram (talk) 21:02, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Yay! the DYK finally went through, and the DYK hook, with no picture though, is on the Wikipedia main page right now. Tho it is the middle of the night in the U.S. The DYK administrator saw fit to directly award the DYK plaque to Lvklock, not to Clariosophic or to me, oh well. But, indirectly then, passing the award on...

The hook that appears now is, Did You Know: *... that zooming in from satellite view, one can see the outlines of Wilcox Octagon House and most of the 82 octagon houses listed on the U.S. National Register?


 * Thanks, KudzuVine, for your timely help. The photos were great, and you chiming in with those was great for morale and momentum, which helped us keep going to create a good list that we are all proud of.  It was fun getting the list out, at least (meaning it was less fun about negotiating for the DYK) !   doncram (talk) 08:28, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

List of NHLs in NM
P.S. there are a couple HABS PICS AVAIL. marked in New Mexico NHLs. :) doncram (talk) 08:28, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Starting a wikibreak! I will be back on 1 July and will certainly look at this. Thanks for the heads up. KudzuVine (talk) 11:48, 22 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for coming back, and getting to those pics! By the way, do you have any idea how many NHL articles you have illustrated with HABS pics and/or other pics? I am curious and would like to include mention of that in a report. doncram (talk) 01:04, 4 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Counting on the screen is difficult. I believe that all my photos are on the Commons. I have 686 total edits but this includes revisions, additional categories, new categories and a few deletion requests due to my mistakes. A quick attempt on NRHP photos is 430 ± 50. This excludes submarines, ships, lighthouses, etc. that are obviously not NRHP. It would be difficult to count just NHL unless this was important. I have many NRHPs in South Carolina and some in adjoining states and the Los Angeles, Chicago, etc., projects. I would guess that I have put photos on almost every state's NHL list. KudzuVine (talk) 12:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Fourth of July, or bust, Thanks!
Thanks for illustrating hundreds of NHL articles with beautiful historic photos! And, please join wp:NRHP! doncram (talk) 16:22, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I finally signed up on the wp:NRHP list! I have had the WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Userbox on my user page for some time. I celebrated by writing Broad Margin and adding a picture for Sheldon Church Ruins. KudzuVine (talk) 20:05, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I noticed your having joined, but didn't notice your day of the 4th industriousness until just now! Nice ones, and glad ur officially on board! doncram (talk) 16:12, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

new nhls
There's a pack of new nhl proposals in progress at wp:NHLs 2008, prepping for an announcement that could come within July. It would really be great to get pics for these! doncram (talk) 16:12, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Fort Sumter Range Lights
Some info for the Fort Sumter Range Lights article may be at books.google.com. -- Suntag (talk) 17:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I will look at that. I also went the old fashion way with a trip to the library and found that Fort Sumter Range is still on navigation charts. Also one additional history book. I will expand. KudzuVine (talk) 22:12, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Hobcaw
Hello. Great seeing this piece. I used to walk over the acreage back in the 80s. Thanks for working this up to DYK. Excellent. Regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 01:08, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I have never been there. I finished Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church last weekend and put it up for a DYK. There are a few more Georgetown area NRHPs with pictures and some information. Now I am moving my editing back from the coast for awhile. KudzuVine (talk) 01:46, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I've added one to the graveyard at Prince George Winyhah. :-) Keep up the good work. Regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 01:57, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

invitation
You're invited to sign up as a founding member, at WikiProject Council/Proposals ! :) doncram (talk) 05:29, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Signed up KudzuVine (talk) 14:19, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Historic Sites has opened up. I took the liberty of assuming your support for the wikiproject meant you wanted to join as a member, and I copied your signature to the Members list on the main page.  Please visit and add to, or remove, your listing there.  It would be great to hear about what you're interested in the Wikiproject becoming, in your member comment and/or at the Talk page, shortcut wt:HSITES.  Thanks for your support! doncram (talk) 03:23, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

redlinks when proper disambig page needed
Hi, thanks for adding pics at National Register of Historic Places listings in Greenville County, South Carolina, and setting up proper red-links. If you can do that elsewhere, I'd appreciate if you'd let me know when proper disambig pages are needed. For many of the ones you did, the previous bluelink pointed to a disambig page that properly listed the Greenville County place, and your revising the bluelink to be a redlink took care of it entirely. For others, including Imperial Hotel and Fairview Presbyterian Church, the bluelink pointed to an article about a different place or to a disambig page that did not reflect the SC location properly. I fixed those ones up just now. I kind of specialize in fixing disambig pages and setting up new ones where needed to cover NRHP properties, would be glad to know of others to fix up/set up. Thanks! P.S. I should have done this already for this county article that i set up a table in, but i didn't get to it. doncram (talk) 00:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Did York, Pickens Counties and I will look at the others. Spring Break ends soon! KudzuVine (talk) 14:19, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

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DYK for USCGC Citrus (WLB-300)
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Disambiguation needed on USCGC Citrus (WLB-300)
Hi. Thanks for your great work on this article. I'm currently working on disambiguating wikilinks in the article. There's one link I cannot easily determine the proper target of, namely Westinghouse. Since you seem to know a lot about this area, I figured you may well also know which would be the correct target. Cheers! - Lilac Soul (talk • contribs • count)• I'm watching this page so just reply to me right here! 18:22, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for contacting me. I did not realize that it was so complex and did not check the link. So we learn. Westinghouse Electric (1886) would seem to be the company in existence when the electric motor was made. I can make the change on the USCGC Citrus page if you wish KudzuVine (talk) 18:53, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I handled it, thanks for finding the proper target. Great job on the article! - Lilac Soul (talk • contribs • count) 18:55, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Trinity Episcopal Church (Columbia, South Carolina)
Shubinator (talk) 05:13, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

U.S. Custom House (Charleston, South Carolina)
Hi, I could not find the DYK hook in your article U.S. Custom House (Charleston, South Carolina), per DYK Rules for hooks. Perhaps you could either point it out to me, or add it to the article if it is not already there. Regards, &mdash; Mattisse (Talk) 19:26, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK issue
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 * Nevermind, I mis-read it! I verified the hook. :) Carpet Crawler  message me  02:16, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Indian Fields Methodist Campground
Added by myself to my user page since it did not appear. This can be verified on Talk:Indian Fields Methodist Campground KudzuVine (talk) 02:40, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Smith Tobacco Barn
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DYK nomination of Strawberry Chapel and Childsbury Town Site
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Page titles
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Southern Railway Passenger Station (Westminster) a different title by copying its content and pasting it into Southern Railway Passenger Station (Westminster, South Carolina). This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other articles that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. R'n'B (call me Russ) 13:56, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Missing image file?
Hi KV ... Yesterday, you added an image for Statesville Commercial Historic District to National Register of Historic Places listings in Iredell County, North Carolina, but it seems that the file does not exist. I tried searching for it here and on Commons and came up empty. Can you fix it? Thanks. --sanfranman59 (talk) 01:25, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Perhaps they're having some problems with Commons. I wonder if there could be a limitation on how long the filename can be. The file you added to the Iredell County NRHP list has an awfully long filename. I wonder if you'd have more luck if you shorten the filename? Just a thought. --sanfranman59 (talk) 05:15, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

NRHP pictures
Hey, just wanted to say I love what you're doing with the NRHP pictures; keep up the good work. I also wanted to point out that in the future you can download a higher quality JPEG for commons. I Fknow that they aim for the highest resolution possible. Its not much different but its probably worth doing anyways. You can also download a very high resolution TIFF, but that is probably way too excessive and I'm not sure how well TIFFs work on wikipedia. Danski14(talk) 18:57, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Cochise County
I must say, I'm impressed by the pile of DYK recognitions you've gotten. Great job :-)

I've undone your addition of two pictures to National Register of Historic Places listings in Cochise County, Arizona: one image because it's nonfree without a rationale for the list, and the other because it doesn't show anything in Cochise County — the buildings of the Sierra Bonita Ranch are located in Graham County, so at least in my opinion a picture of them doesn't belong on the Cochise County list. What do you think of my position here? Nyttend (talk) 21:16, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I picked up the Lehner mammoth picture on its page. The picture is still there. Did not notice any problem. I did wonder about the Seirra Bonita site when I saw on the other county's page. Just did not get back to check where it belongs.
 * Haven't been writing new pages much lately. And now school is starting. KudzuVine (talk) 21:49, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks; I was saying that the mammoth doesn't have a rationale for the NRHP list. My reason for asking was that, if you disagreed, we could take this to WT:NRHP to ask for third-party opinion.  Not trying to tell you what to do :-)  Nyttend (talk) 12:41, 17 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Since the pictures I have uploaded have either been USGov, pre-1923, or self created, I haven't gotten into the Non-free content issue. Sounds too complicated for me to understand without an attorney. I have no interest in trying to get an third party opinion, because non-free seems pretty subjective and dicey. I will try to remember to check when I go to put the photo from the article on the NRHP list page.


 * I also have moved File:El Camino del Diablo, 2004.jpg from Yuma to Pima County, Arizona because the geo coordinates listed on the upload file are in Pima. School is starting and I have posted by wikibreak at the top of the page to tell myself what I should be doing. But I am not leaving .... KudzuVine (talk) 22:14, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for checking on the Camino picture; I definitely didn't notice that. And as far as nonfree content — I really don't understand it very well either, so I almost always avoid the question as well.  I too upload plenty of USGov and own works and virtually nothing else, even Flickr; in fact, nearly all of the other-people's-pictures that I upload except for USGov are photos that friends have agreed to license using OTRS.  Nyttend (talk) 02:22, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Blanking redirects
Please don't blank redirects. If you think they should be deleted, there's WP:RFD, if you think they are pointing to the wrong place, just fix them. Gigs (talk) 17:58, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help. I first reverted Odd Fellows Cemetery and then converted it into a disabiguous page listed four cemeteries that I easily found on WP. Three are NRHP. From searching, there are many more, but they may not be on the NRHP. This solves the inappropriate redirect and starts a disambiguous page for the topic.KudzuVine (talk) 23:51, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

HABS/HAER photos
Just a request with the HABS/HAER pictures — could you make sure to download the largest possible resolution jpg image, or perhaps use the tiffs and convert them to jpgs? Nyttend (talk) 01:01, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * For an example — with Great Duck Island, the larger jpg is here, and the tiff (which you can open in Paint) is here. If you upload them without removing the borders, the file size won't be damaged as it is when you edit images with Paint or whatever basic program you're using.  I've learned that by experience — I always upload HABS/HAER images with borders for that very reasons, since I don't have anything better than Paint.  Nyttend (talk) 01:04, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Packard Proving Grounds Gateway Complex
I agree with your talk page proposal: even the name doesn't sound like a nautical testing facility. I expect that the actual listed site is the buildings at the entrance to the actual proving grounds. Nyttend (talk) 03:58, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Rock of Ages Light
Given your productivity, I don't know if you are aware (or care) how 'your children' are doing. But fYI, this one has more or less graduated from college. Thanks for the start. Best regards. 7&amp;6=thirteen (talk) 15:16, 23 September 2009 (UTC) Stan
 * I do care. Thanks for the encouragement! Currently not working on new pages, but I will be back at that. It is surprising to me that there are still lighthouses with USCG or HABS pictures available that have not been loaded. I have added nearly 10 in the past month.KudzuVine (talk) 15:41, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * If you look at the Michigan list of lights on the bottom of the page, you will truly be surprised at the number that are still undone in Michigan. BTW, that list keeps growing, and I've been working hard on the existing articles.  (I've been trying ot improve -- or even finish -- articles.).  James Woodward is someone like you who has created vast numbers of lighthouse articles.  Of course, this is almost a 'Bottomless pit (Bible)' of an enterprise.  so many lighthouses, so little time.  7&amp;6=thirteen (talk) 16:03, 23 September 2009 (UTC) Stan

School Street School Image
Hi: Do you know something more than what's on the record here -- the image calls itself School Street School in Taunton, MA. Taunton is not Haverhill, where you posted it??? (Answer here, please, if you like, or just remove the image). . . . . Jim. . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 13:12, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for noticing that. I did not realize that the original wikilink was incorrect. I have renamed the Haverhill school and removed the picture. KudzuVine (talk) 14:17, 28 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Good, thanks. I assume you're mining existing images to fill in blanks, which is great.  I've been doing some of the same on the south side of Boston.  While you're at it, could you add the appropriate NRHP category on Commons? (usually Commons:Category:National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts, but some of the cities and towns have their own. If you like mining and don't have HotCat, I find it useful -- go to your Commons preferences gadgets to add it....  Regards, . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  17:48, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually I am not looking for images. I just check the link to see if images are available or if the link was to a disambiguous page. I have done HABS/HAER pictures for about 4 to 6 states (SC, NC, GA, NY), but I realized that I would never get through all the states in a finite time so I started from the bottom. Massachusetts is the last state. Hundreds of disambiguous pages and many pictures. I will try to link the Commons with category if it has not been done. Haven't lived in MA for the last 37 years so I am not as familiar as I should be as you discovered this morning! KudzuVine (talk) 18:28, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Since I was aware that you are scanning the lists to see if there was an image in the article and not in the list or vice versa, among other things, I added a note to the talk page on the lists that I have scanned see Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Norfolk County, Massachusetts.  May I ask that you do the same? -- it would be very easy for both of us to do some of them, only the second scanner would get no hits. Also, at least for me, it saves my having to keep track separately of which ones I've done. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  11:33, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Good idea! I will try to retroactively do it for the MA pages I have just done. But it is not realistic to do the previous 49 states and X territories/commonwealths. But new problems will occur due to others making pages with the same titles. It may be a never ending job, but I did not sign up for it! KudzuVine (talk) 20:02, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * No, of course don't try to go back -- but I appreciate the notes, as I would have wasted time doing Salem, Somerville, Winchester, etc.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 13:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Thanks for fixing the numbering. In case you wonder — this is a product of my method of changing numbers easily. I put the entire table into Notepad, tell it to replace every instance of "1 " with "2q ", "2 " with "3q ", etc. [the "q" is so that it won't replace any number more than once; I remove the "q" before posting the table], and then go through and update all the tens columns for numbers now ending in a zero. However, as you see here, I occasionally forget to update one or more columns. Nyttend (talk) 13:00, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Elkman generator
Per your edit summary at National Register of Historic Places listings in Bristol County, Massachusetts this morning — I believe that Elkman was conducting maintenance. I was going to leave him a message about it, but when I went back to get exact details, it was working fine again. Nyttend (talk) 14:47, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I wondered about that after I did it. I thought I was entering a red link, but it turned out that there was the page existed. It was not on the disambiguous page so I posted it there. KudzuVine (talk) 14:49, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Greyhound Bus Depot (Columbia, South Carolina)
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Congratulations on DYK's
Hi, by my count on this Talk page, you've created about 37 DYKs already! Please feel free to add yourself to DYK list, and....

Little Rivers
The Little River (Columbia County, Georgia) is a tributary of the Savannah River. Gjs238 (talk) 17:23, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Is the Little River (McCormick County, South Carolina) also a tributary of the Savannah River?
 * Little River (Oconee County, South Carolina) is NOT a tributary of the Savannah River, so does not belong on a disambiguation page for rivers called Little River that are tributaries of the Savannah River.
 * Little River (McCormick County, South Carolina) is GNIS ID 1229933 and is a direct tributary of the Savannah River;
 * Little River (Oconee County, South Carolina) --> Keowee River --> Seneca River (South Carolina) --> Savannah River. You decide if this is a tributary or not, but is is part of the Savannah River watershed - except for the water that is actually diverted to the Greenville Water System. KudzuVine (talk) 17:42, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

NRHP SC list
Hey there, I noticed you keep regular tabs on the SC NRHP list by county. Noticed that the duplicates list 7 listings, but there are only 6 in the footnotes. I know little about SC, so thought I'd pass this along to you. 25or6to4 (talk) 22:53, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The Pendleton Historic District (Pendleton, South Carolina) lists three counties: Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens. There no significant contributing properties in Oconee County since the shift in the boundaries before the NRHP inventory was written. But one is right next to the county line. I think that this covers the seven duplicates. Thanks for looking at SC KudzuVine (talk) 23:43, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

CT NRHPs identified to have HABS pics available
Hi KudzuVine, If/when you have time and were interested, I'd appreciate if you'd add HABS pics to some CT NRHPs in National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut. I've looked up and indicated "HABS pics avail." for 8-10 items, and am busy creating the corresponding individual articles, too. I'm putting external links to the specific HABS/HAER pic sets into the individual articles, but not picking and uploading a pic. You've always seemed to be better/faster at that than me! I see u may be on a wikibreak so won't be expecting anything much. Hope u r well. Cheers, doncram (talk) 01:46, 29 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much! I see you addressed all the New London County items already.  I really appreciate your doing this.  It is helping to change the mood, i think, among some editors of CT NRHP sites where there has been contention rather than article-building for a long time.  Knock on wood, from some other developments, that seems to be over.  It's nice to make some rapid progress in getting pics and doing starter articles on those sites, instead.


 * If you get a chance, one more pic would help: After adding NRHP docs to the North Stonington Village Historic District, I can see now that the HABS photo of "House, Post Office Vicinity, North Stonington, New London County, CT" is for the William Sisson House in the NRHP HD.  Thanks! doncram (talk) 15:58, 31 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Finished. Thanks for identifying the house. I had looked at it, but I could not make sure that it was in the district.


 * People are funny! In most of wikipedia, I go on without much notice. Then you hit an area or a state where everyone has definite ideas and I don't do things correctly. Currently working on NRHP bridges. This is a high maintenance area since it got created in 2008, but there has not been consistently updated. KudzuVine (talk) 23:27, 31 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for adding that one too! I'll be able to make a DYK for that district now, i think.  Yep, bridges and railway stations, too, seem to get a lot of interest. doncram (talk) 21:41, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Doncram asks me to tell you — there are HABS photos for the Bronson Windmill and for the Reverend Thomas Hawley House (within the Ridgefield Center HD) in Fairfield County. Nyttend (talk) 21:13, 6 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Actually i wasn't done yet... now I am, and there are more there, about 6 now, in List of RHPs in Fairfield. Thanks KudzuVine and thanks also Nyttend (who also took care of at least one there)! --doncram (talk) 03:19, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Think I have gotten the ones you indicated. A total of about eight photos.KudzuVine (talk) 00:22, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Southport CT HABS pics
Hey, thanks again for cropping and uploading the many Fairfield County CT NRHP pics that you did. I know it is time-consuming.

One of the NRHP places in the county is Southport Historic District (Fairfield, Connecticut), which I am trying to develop. It has 2 HABS pics already I think. But there are a total of 37 HABS pic sets available, for different houses in the district, as i figure out in talking to myself at Talk:Southport Historic District (Fairfield, Connecticut). There are 41 hits on "Southport CT" in HABS, and just 4 of those are outside the HD. Some of the places have just one pic in HABS, others have multiple pics. I would be thrilled if you'd care to pick out assorted pics and include them all in a Commons gallery for Southport Historic District (Fairfield, Connecticut). I was thinking I'd like to include a pic of each one covered in HABS, if possible, at least in a gallery in the article (and these could be covered in a commons gallery, too). It's a lot of pics, but the district is really extraordinary I think. It's very well-preserved and very wealthy, apparently (see the U.S. Supreme court case covered in the article). Whatever extent you'd like to help here, i would be thrilled. Cheers! --doncram (talk) 22:12, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * First ten photos uploaded to Category:Southport Historic District (Fairfield, Connecticut) in commons. Commons template on article. More later. KudzuVine (talk) 00:22, 10 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I think I got all the ones in the district and one or more that were not in the district. I loved all the 1950s TV antennas on the houses and one picture with the lawn sprinkler running - Wakeman B. Meeker House. Don't think that Southport is in my price range! KudzuVine (talk) 21:44, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Westmoreland County bridge picture
How did you find File:Bells Mill Bridge, Sewickley Creek, West Newton vicinity (Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania).jpg? I've already uploaded every HABS picture of NRHP sites that I could find for every county in Pennsylvania east of the Alleghenies except Erie, Crawford, and Allegheny. You've also found pictures for bridges in many other counties nationwide for which I thought I'd already uploaded everything; I'm becoming quite curious :-) Nyttend (talk) 23:16, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Probably just searched Westmoreland PA and possibly Bridge if Westmoreland had a lot of HABSHEAR hits. I have gotten from Alabama up to Vermont on bridges! They are all beginning to look the same. KudzuVine (talk) 02:29, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

NRHP
Hi, would you be interested in helping me develop National Register of Historic Places listings in Scott County, Iowa as was suggested in my peer review? Thank you, C T J F 8 3  chat `
 * Happy to help, but .... I looked into the HABS/HAER listings. Doncram is correct that there are pictures, but I could not clearly identify one. Some problems are
 * Palmer Mansion, 808 Brady Street has only drawings, which I don't think come across very well as images
 * George M. Schmidt Block, 301-303 West Second Street has a different address than the Schmidt Block, 115 E. 3rd St.
 * Grace Episcopal picture is already there. But there is a problem. The original had HABS borders. A second was loaded without borders, but the original displays. I downloaded the second image and it does not have borders. I don't know what is wrong.
 * I did not find new images in Commons under Category:Scott County, Iowa
 * The county has a huge number of locations. A local person could make digital pictures, which would enhance the page. KudzuVine (talk) 20:38, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, pictures aren't a problem, I live there and can take all the pics we need. I just would need help developing the articles to beyond a stub. C T J F 8 3  chat 06:02, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I generally work from the NRHP nomination/inventory form and include sources from local history books and that I find through Google Books. The South Carolina forms are all available, but I don't know if the Iowa forms are. A source was not given in the old version of NRHP editor help, which was been moved somewhere else or deleted. FOCUS may have a few from Iowa but that would have to be checked on a case-by-case basis. I would work putting in photos and those through local history books. From here, it would be very difficult. Good luck! KudzuVine (talk) 12:50, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Found the location: State sources of nomination/inventory forms. It does not look like an easy source is available for Iowa. KudzuVine (talk) 12:56, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, I can see what I can find at the local library. C T J F 8 3  chat 18:30, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Old Harbor Light (Savannah, Georgia)
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DYK for Cameron Ram-type Blowout Preventer (1922)
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

great work fixing ambiguous links
I just want to say I and other editors in the obscure world of disambiguation pages with links notice, indirectly, the effect of your recent good work to fix up ambiguous links on NRHP list-article pages. It is striking, actually, that in a couple recent days including today, the number of disambiguation pages newly completely cleaned exceeds the number of new problem disambiguation pages, as covered in Disambiguation pages with links/The Daily Disambig (which shows 85 dabs entirely fixed vs. 64 new problem dabs today). As long as i have been watching, besides in these recent days when you've cleared Louisiana and Alaska and other NRHP list-articles (and hence removed the last inappropriate link to various dab pages like Thurmond House), there has very seldom been such advances! Thanks! P.S. I do hope you're using Dispenser's neat tool for finding and fixing the ambiguous links on a given page, right? --doncram (talk) 13:36, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I did not intend to clean up disambiguous pages, I am making my tour for bluelinks without pictures that may have a picture on the actual page. This has discovered a few pictures, but many more disambiguous pages that were not there a year ago! Not using any tool. Would it help? KudzuVine (talk) 22:06, 17 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, all the better. Yes User:dispenser's tool would help.  I gave a link for it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Archive 39.  If you can use Firefox or other non-MSIE browser, it is really great;  if u use MSIE it is still very useful but requires an extra cut-and-paste step.  For identifying each ambiguous link in a given page, and allowing u to select from dab page choices for each link needing fixing, then fixing it for you.
 * Here is a prepared link for you to try dispenser's tool: http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py?page=National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_South_Carolina. That is the dab solver tool applied to the South Carolina NRHP list-article, which may well have no ambiguous links.  When applied to a page that does, it highlights the ambiguous ones in red.  You can click on a red one and it will offer u the alternatives given at the corresponding dab page.  Select one option for each one.  When done u select "Show preview" or "Show changes" below (I prefer to select the latter), and then, if u are using firefox as browser you can save the page with those changes.  It's very efficient!  If u are using MS Internet Explorer you can't directly save the prepared page, but you can copy-paste the whole page and use that to implement the change more manually, maybe in a different browser window.  Hope you try it, and then i think you will like it! --doncram (talk) 21:12, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. It has helped. But it does not get them all and certainly does not find pictures! I have toured the Deep South states except FL & TX and have worked my up from the bottom of the national list up to Montana. Some states are in great shape (probably because someone has "adopted" the state). Others are in poor shape. Some new pictures. Many DABs. Off for a week. KudzuVine (talk) 14:42, 19 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Okay, neat. I am so glad you are on walk-about through the states! By the way, there's a HABS pic needed for New Preston Hill Historic District, actually just drawings available (from external link in article);  it would be great if u could add whenever convenient.  Thanks! --doncram (talk) 15:40, 20 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I second the emotion of thanks. Keep up the great work, both de-disambiguating and picture adding! :) --Ebyabe (talk) 15:18, 26 June 2010 (UTC)


 * To all reading here, you might want to look at the new Dablinks landing page. I've added generators so its easier to do things like checking a category of pages for disambiguation links.  — Dispenser 21:44, 27 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for catching images that I hadn't added to the NRHP listings! I went ahead and caught up 4 more images I hadn't added yet for Wakefield. Faolin42 (talk) 22:12, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * And thanks for all the photos that you have taken and posted. They make the pages come alive! KudzuVine (talk) 02:27, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Requests for comment/Naming conventions for United States federal buildings
You opinion is welcome at Requests for comment/Naming conventions for United States federal buildings. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:31, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Housatonic River Railroad Bridge
Hi KudzuVine -- Could you possibly add one or more HABS pics, for Housatonic River Railroad Bridge article? I wonder if #49, out of these 9 HAER photos of the bridge, photos #49-#57, might be best, if only one added? But I'd be happy with any being added to the one low-angle modern pic in the article. Thanks for considering, whether you can do this or not. regards, --doncram (talk) 15:03, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Uploaded as primary photo on Housatonic River Railroad Bridge and on the NRHP county and bridge lists. I will look at those HAER photos for additional bridge pictures for other ones unless you have already done so.KudzuVine (talk) 15:47, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that looks great! It's a big help, both for the pic and to get some progress on that article where there happens to be a weird side argument about the bridge's name.  It's just good for everyone to be reminded that we can contribute positively.  And i see you're adding other pics nearby, too, thanks! --doncram (talk) 20:20, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Requests for comment/Naming conventions for United States federal buildings
Greetings! I'm looking for additional input in this discussion - please comment if you have an opinion. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:47, 4 August 2010 (UTC)